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EDITORIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Oliver Knowlton
But the most significant thing about Marsalis' career is not his personal success. It is the fact that, largely under his influence, a jazz renaissance is flowering on what was once barren soil. Straight-ahead jazz music almost died in the 1970s as record companies embraced the electronically enhanced jazz...
Marsalis' roots, like those of jazz, go back to the steamy, sensual city of his birth. Scholars bicker over exactly where and when jazz was born, but there is no doubt that its first identifiable players -- like the legendary trumpeter Buddy Bolden -- appeared in the dance halls, honky-tonks and...
But then jazz has always been a high-risk profession: King Oliver and Charlie Parker both died broke. What seems certain now is that this great American cultural tradition is far healthier than it has been in decades. In the hands of people like Wynton Marsalis and hundreds of other...
EDITORIAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Oliver Knowlton